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Bone mineral content in the calcaneus after ankle fracture. 1988

T Ahl, and H E Sjöberg, and N Dalén

Department of Orthopedics, Danderyd Hospital, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.

The bone mineral content across the calcaneus was measured by gamma absorptiometry in 82 patients with operated on ankle fractures. A mean deviation in bone mineral content between the injured and the uninjured leg of 6 percent was found. Early weight bearing in a walking cast or brace did not influence the process of postfractural osteopenia. Compared with the patients with isolated lateral malleolar fractures, the patients with bimalleolar and trimalleolar fractures were older and had a lower bone mineral content in the calcaneus of their uninjured leg. The percentage of deviation in bone mineral content between the injured and uninjured leg was also greater in patients with more severe fractures.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008023	Ligaments, Articular	Fibrous cords of CONNECTIVE TISSUE that attach bones to each other and hold together the many types of joints in the body. Articular ligaments are strong, elastic, and allow movement in only specific directions, depending on the individual joint.	Articular Ligament,Articular Ligaments,Ligament, Articular
D008297	Male		Males
D008875	Middle Aged	An adult aged 45 - 64 years.	Middle Age
D008903	Minerals	Native, inorganic or fossilized organic substances having a definite chemical composition and formed by inorganic reactions. They may occur as individual crystals or may be disseminated in some other mineral or rock. (Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed; McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)	Mineral
D011877	Radionuclide Imaging	The production of an image obtained by cameras that detect the radioactive emissions of an injected radionuclide as it has distributed differentially throughout tissues in the body. The image obtained from a moving detector is called a scan, while the image obtained from a stationary camera device is called a scintiphotograph.	Gamma Camera Imaging,Radioisotope Scanning,Scanning, Radioisotope,Scintigraphy,Scintiphotography,Imaging, Gamma Camera,Imaging, Radionuclide
D011897	Random Allocation	A process involving chance used in therapeutic trials or other research endeavor for allocating experimental subjects, human or animal, between treatment and control groups, or among treatment groups. It may also apply to experiments on inanimate objects.	Randomization,Allocation, Random
D001851	Bone Diseases, Metabolic	Diseases that affect the METABOLIC PROCESSES of BONE TISSUE.	Low Bone Density,Low Bone Mineral Density,Osteopenia,Metabolic Bone Diseases,Bone Density, Low,Bone Disease, Metabolic,Low Bone Densities,Metabolic Bone Disease,Osteopenias
D002111	Calcaneus	The largest of the TARSAL BONES which is situated at the lower and back part of the FOOT, forming the HEEL.	Heel Bone,Bone, Heel
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man